[dane-pgp]

> let people find their ballot by some ID number if they want and call it a day.

And if your boss or landlord or spouse or cult leader hints that you should show them you voted the correct way, what do you do?

[Spivak]

And if your boss or landlord or cult leader makes you request an absentee ballot and fill it out in front of them?

[dane-pgp]

Then you have to hope that the system allows you to override your absentee ballot with an in-person ballot, and that your boss or landlord or cult leader doesn't have people watching the polling locations (or watching your movements whenever the polling locations are open).

I admit that's not a perfect system, but it might skew the outcome of the vote less than a system where governors can selectively reduce the number of polling locations, and staff working at them, to produce hour-long lines of people risking catching a potentially deadly disease from each other.

[david927]

Ensure it's clear that that's illegal in the same way sexual harassment is illegal.

For all the benefits it would bring, that's a silly reason to throw it all away.

[urban_strike]

I think I'd be in the market for a new cult leader if they tried to pull that!

[dane-pgp]

Yeah, why don't people in exploitative cults and abusive relationships just leave? And why don't homeless people just buy a house? And why don't people without bread just eat cake?